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Turkey has been one of the biggest advocators of the global development agenda and the global development goals starting from the adoption of the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000. This strong advocacy increasingly continued with the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the introduction of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015. The UN system in Turkey has been closely working with the Ministry of Development (MoD) as they are the core partner in terms of implementing the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs in Turkey and especially of integrating the SDGs into national development planning. It is indispensable that all the stakeholders should be at the same level of knowledge and awareness for the sake of coherent and effective implementation of the 2030 Agenda. Therefore, as per the request of the Ministy of Development (MoD), the UNCT decided to organize a training on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on 28-29 May 2018 in order to increase the level of awareness of the focal points in the line ministries and various other stakeholders including governmental institutions, CSOs, private sector and academia. Around 120 staff from different stakeholders will be participating to the training and they will be equiped with a better understanding of the 2030 Agenda including the Sustainable Development Goals and their relevance in the context of Turkey.
Undubitably, monitoring and reporting on SDGs is one of the biggest challenges in countries. In order to develop the capacity and the knowledge on monitoring and reporting for the SDG implementation, the MoD also requested a Results Based Management training for the staff from MoD and Turkstat, which are the main coordination agencies for the 2030 Agenda in Turkey. The training on the RBM will be subsequent to the training on SDGs and take place on 30-31 May 2018 with the participation of 40 experts from these agencies.
Both of the trainings will be provided and led by experts coming from the United Nations System Staff College in Bonn, Germany. By the end of the 4-days training, it is envisaged that the knowledge and level of awareness of the line ministries and various stakeholders will have increased and the MoD and the Turkstat will have been able to utilize the tools of RBM in the implementation, monitoring and reporting processes of the SDGs in Turkey.